Jean-Charles Moreux (1889– 7 July 1956) was a French architect, and a representative of a rigorous and poetic classicism.

Life

Gaining a diploma at the École des Beaux-arts de Paris in 1922, he was a friend of

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and worked for Jacques Doucet, baron Robert Rothschild and vicomte Charles de Noailles.

Works

* Saint-Cloud, maison Brugier, 1926-1927. * Saint-Leu-la-Fôret, auditorium for

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, 1926-1927 (private property). * Paris, avenue Marigny, hôtel particulier for baron Robert Rothschild, 1927-1928. * Château de Maulny at Montbizot, (Sarthe), 1929-1930. * Paris, villa Seurat, studio-house for the sculptor Robert Couturier, 1937-1938. * Saint-Germain-en-Laye La Thébaïde, hôtel particulier for the Véra brothers, (André and Paul), 1924. * Paris,

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for Bernard Reichenbach, rue Alfred-Dehodencq, 1930-1932. * Paris, 6, rue de Miromesnil, shop-front of

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's shop, 1936 * Paris, jardins des Gobelins (square René-Le Gall), 1936-1938. * Paris, pavillon de la Martinique, île des Cygnes, for the "exposition internationnale des arts et des techniques dans la vie moderne", 1937. * Cairo, open-air restaurant for the hôtel Sheperd, 1947-1948. * London, library of the Institut de France, Queensberry place, 1949-1950. * Paris,

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, rearrangement of the salle ''Rubens'', 1952–1953, (destroyed).Flemish-style frames by

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. * Paris, musée du Louvre, rotonde des Petits cabinets, 14 paintings from the studiolo of duke

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(1422–1482), 9 by

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and 5 attributed to

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, 1953 (arrangement destroyed). *

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, St. Ansgar's and St. Bernard's Church, compleded 1955.

Bibliography

* Susan Day, ''Jean-Charles Moreux architecte-décorateur-paysagiste'', Ed. Norma, 1999. * '' Histoire de l'architecture '' (PUF, 1968, 10 édition)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreux, Jean-Charles 1889 births 1956 deaths People from Saône-et-Loire 20th-century French architects